Today marks the final day of our 200 hour yoga teacher training program.

Its hard to know where to begin, which words to use, how to express all of the emotions that arise and have been experienced throughout this entire journey…but oh, what a journey it has been. Like the waves, ups, downs, calm and storms. Riding all of these waves have been the most amazing life experiences I have ever had.

You can do it. No Exceptions.You can turn your whole world upside down and inside out.Yes you can.You can heal and grow and create and manifest miracles.You can be the change you seek, inspire others and astonish yourself.Yes you can.In the very next breath you take, you can begin stepping towards the truth of who you really are with a sense of awesome adventure.Oh yes you can.You can make this your year and watch as dreams come true before your eyes.Oh yes, yes, yes you can.

Nothing like starting your morning out right with a vegan breakfast! Talk about yummy!Something else which is about to start today, the next 21 days of my final yoga stretch & a revamped healthy eating lifestyle :)

Its difficult to write about ones not so perfect moments.Like Sunday, where I found myself angrily walking out of mediation during our lunch break and not returning. That may not have been my finest moment in YTT...

I PASSED MY FIRST TEACH BACK ON THURSDAY! I taught a full hour of Ashtanga yoga to my fellow students and my two teachers. Whoah! It was quite the experience, nerve racking and fulfilling at the same time!

I'd love to share one of the most yummy vegan & gluten free chocolate chip muffin recipes I've had the chance to bake, to date! his following recipe was provided by my fellow yogi Chrissy, thanks for sharing girl! :D

Pulling the latest night blogging to date, as I drink coffee and eat a chocolate chip muffin at 5:10am…previously being swept away with a fellow friend with midnight talks and reflection on life experiences.A conversation similar to day number 37’s YTT class which was all about vulnerability and acceptance.

I celebrate this lineage today. For the first time, I taught an official 60 minute ashtanga yoga class to a small group! It wasn't flawless but it was still a pretty amazing experience, bringing me one step closer to being a confident yoga instructor. It actually went a lot better then I had anticipated. It must have been all the good vibes I had asked for the other day, thank you thank you! I continue to learn and continue to grow, everyday. One step at a time, as for today, today was a leap :D

Prior to this program, I got to a point where I felt so mentally drained, I had given all of my “Prana” to a lifestyle, which over the years had taken more from me then it gave in return. Slowly this permanence brought me to my lowest of lows, like a small weighted anchor ever so gradually ebbing down into the a dark abyss of the mind, where anxieties and worries flourished. I had everything, but felt nothing...

A bit of vinyasa flow. For how many years I've been doing yoga, I am actually new to this style of yoga as of this last month. The idea of one breath for each movement, like a dance. Each time I vinyasa getting a bit faster and more fluid.

There comes a time, when the mantra “let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go…” needs to stay on repeat in your head. Or one of my favorite mantras, “send him love, then drop it, send him love, then drop it...” and even, for good measure, “forgive him, forgive yourself, and let it go, forgive him, forgive yourself, and LET IT GO…”

My wonderful yoga teacher Patience helped take progress photos of me today and a video (high quality iPhone-ography, hehe), a starting point to which I can look back at three months from now! I'm hoping to make some nice progress in the realm of flexibility and arm balance, inversion strength; we will see! :D